Despite a wealth of available treatments to control the symptoms of chronic asthma, the lung disease has no cure. The discovery of an unexpected cause of asthma could change that.
A glitch in the mechanical process that drives normal turnover of epithelial cells lining the lungs could be to blame, researchers report in the April 5 Science. Better understanding of this physical force underpinning chronic asthma attacks might lead to new ways of combating the disease.
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